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Access and Use of Credit in Uganda: Unlocking the Dilemma of Financing Small Holder Farmers

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  • Munyambonera, Ezra
  • Nampewo, Dorothy
  • Adong, Annet
  • Lwanga, Musa

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This policy brief is about access and use of credit in Uganda by small holder farmers. The brief uses the secondary data to shed light on the extent of the problem and further uses successful case studies in agricultural financing to demonstrate how improvements can be achieved. The major problem established from available information is that despite several agricultural financing initiatives and other reforms in the financial sector in the last 20 years, access to credit by small holder farmers in Uganda has remained very low in the region of about 10 percent. Examining the several agricultural financing initiatives since 1990s tends to suggest that the problem could largely be attributed to weak institutional framework and policy inconsistency on agricultural financing over the years, notwithstanding household demand factors. The key policy recommendation drawn from this assessment is that if agricultural financing is to improve, there is need to have strong institutional framework that focuses on financing frameworks, monitoring and implementation. A better option is for government to support the establishment of a rural or agricultural development bank that prioritises agricultural financing.

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  • Munyambonera, Ezra & Nampewo, Dorothy & Adong, Annet & Lwanga, Musa, 2012. "Access and Use of Credit in Uganda: Unlocking the Dilemma of Financing Small Holder Farmers," Policy Briefs 150229, Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:eprcpb:150229
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.150229
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    1. Isaboke, H. N. & Zhang, Q. & Nyarindo, W. N., 2016. "The effect of weather index based micro-insurance on food security status of smallholders," Agricultural and Resource Economics: International Scientific E-Journal, Agricultural and Resource Economics: International Scientific E-Journal, vol. 2(3), September.
    2. Lakuma, Corti Paul & Sserunjogi, Brian, 2018. "The Value Added Tax (VAT) analysis for Uganda," Research Series 280622, Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC).
    3. Francis Awuku Darko, 2016. "Is there a mission drift in microfinance? Some new empirical evidence from Uganda," Studies in Economics 1603, School of Economics, University of Kent.

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